A few searches online uncovered others who had similar setups and successfully upgraded them to modern performance standards with an SSD and additional RAM. While it probably worked great when it was new, five years later it had become painfully slow (#firstworldproblems) with its 2GB of RAM and 160GB HDD. It's certainly better eye candy and matches the MacBook and MacBook Pro more closely than the alternatives.įor more info, see the LED Display SPECIFICATIONS PAGE.My fianc é has a 13″ MacBook Pro from 2009. It's about time that Apple add the iSight camera to a Cinema Display! It's more expensive than the Dell 24' UltraSharp 2408WFP with its landscape to portrait pivot feature, higher contrast ratio, and faster pixel response, but I think the new Apple 24' Cinema's LED-backlit screen, aluminum and glass enclosure, integrated iSight camera, and MagSafe charger make it worth the extra $$$. PSSST - REGARDING THE NEW APPLE LED 24' CINEMA DISPLAY. At a certain point, our operation was so crippled that we had to push and hold the power button to force a shutdown. And if you manage to quit out of the memory hungry app, the reported amount of real memory in use does not recede. For starters, if you use anything beyond 4GB of real memory, the MBP goes into 'molasses' mode. Though the MacBook Pro will boot and Activity Monitor sees all 8GB, there are serious operational issues. Just for fun we tried the 8GB configuration (2 x 4GB).

Check with them and with Trans International for pricing on adding one 4GB SODIMM to your MacBook or MacBook Pro. We received a notice from Other World Computing that the 6GB configuration also works in MacBooks and MacBook Pros released November 2007 or later. You can never be too thin, too rich, or have too much memory.īTW, 6GB WORKS IN OTHER APPLE LAPTOP MODELS Maybe instead of ordering your MBP with the $500 128GB SSD, you should save your money for a 4GB memory module.

Or, in other words, you should have no worries about a speed penalty imposed by non-matching memory modules and loss of interleaving.Īnd when you consider the 6GB configuration potentially means less virtual memory swaps, then the only consideration is the cost.

The difference ranged from -.5% to +1.7% or an average difference of +.28% or less than 1/3 of one percent. The 6GB configuration produced essentially identical benchmark results to the 4GB configuration in our 2.8GHz MacBook Pro. Test mule was a 2.8GHz MacBook Pro 'late 2008.' 6GB = One 2GB and One 4GB 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM SO-DIMMĤGB = Two 2GB 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM SO-DIMMs.

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